Who is your Inner Circle and Close Contacts?

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License Restoration Questions about Your Inner Circle & Close Contacts

1. Are you in a relationship? With whom?
2. Does this individual drink? How often?
3. Do you have regular contacts with others not previously mentioned?
4. If so, who are these regular contacts? (provide names, phone numbers, etc)

There may a further attempt to delve into your more personal relationships. These questions will tell the hearing officer who knows you the best, and whether the people that truly do know you are the very people that help you remain alcohol-free. Specifically, it is the author’s belief that husbands, wives, girlfriends, boyfriends, and other influential people are a critical looking–glass into your efforts of remaining sober. After all, if the person you share the most with happens to drink, how far are you from sharing that, as well? It is truly a red flag warning to a hearing officer if you claim you have quit drinking, but a significant other, such as a husband or wife, continues to consume alcohol. It is even more disconcerting if your significant other realizes your issue with drinking but feels no obligation to keep alcohol out of the home, for your sake.

In many instances, a person’s decision to become or stay sober carries with it a tendency to judge others who have not come to a similar decision. Nevertheless, it would be foolish to label your partner an alcoholic at a restoration hearing with the mistaken impression that your crusade to help him or her find sobriety makes you any more alcohol-free. On the contrary, coming to such revelations only tells the hearing officer that alcohol likely remains in your home, and that its consistent use by others may one day compel you to do the same. It is best to leave other’s drinking problems outside of the explanation that your problem is controlled.

If you have regular contacts with anyone not yet mentioned in the hearing, the hearing officer may look for some feedback from these individuals. If, of course, someone knows you very well, it would be a good idea to bring that person to the hearing, provided that person’s testimony is not simply a reiteration of information you have already presented. It is the people closest to you that can represent that all the good things you have claimed of yourself are actually the case; it is, after all, helpful that someone else, other than yourself, agrees with how great you are. The hearing officer may view with suspicion any explanation that you have new and improved friends and partners if none of these alleged individuals can come forward and attest to some of the things you have discussed on the record. The DLAD is always looking for inconsistencies or incongruities in the things you represent. In this way, the testimony of third persons is a powerful method to supplement your testimony in a truthful way; it demonstrates that the things to which you have testified can be verified by others.

On the other hand, testimony from your witnesses can hurt your efforts, as well. A person who claims to be your best friend, for example, can seriously damage the credibility of your testimony if you claim you do not go to bars, but your friend claims that you do. Even if your friend alleges that you attend bars without drinking, your earlier testimony that you do not attend bars at all has been discredited and, by default, so has the rest of your testimony. You must be very careful about the people you decide to bring to the hearing and seriously ask yourself whether or not the person or persons you bring can have full discretion to openly and honestly discuss you and your relationship with alcohol.

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